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Information About Rupert:
Personal Description:
Currently I am in my third year at the University of Exeter studying English Literature. I obtained the highest mark of my year in my first year, and have maintained a 1st class average throughout. I have a passion for reading, and talking about books, ideas and language. I intend to do a postgraduate PGSE and go into teaching after my degree. I feel I am a great communicator, striving to make subjects accessible and interesting. My idea of being articulate and eloquent rests upon being lucid, clear and coherent. Understanding and making others understand me I believe to be the most important skills I have acquired doing my degree. Teaching others, especially those of a younger academic level, helps me to adapt language to suit different intellectual audiences.
Personally, I am friendly and patient. I like to joke and make others comfortable in my company. I think learning and enjoyment can coincide. I'm happy being interested in others, and when others are interested in me.
Teaching Experience:
I participated in a student mentor scheme with my university. Over a period of two weeks, I taught literature to a selection of Cornish year 10 students, with the aim of preparing them to give a presentation to university academics , their personal teaching staff and parents. The group of students I led were required to do a presentation on the 'power of language' using Lewis Carroll's text Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. My challenge was to adapt complex Derridean linguistic theory for the comprehension of GCSE level students. Not only did they seem to understand the ideas given to them and how they applied to a literary text, but they also were able to perform and communicate them to an audience. The best part of the experience was to see how i personally helped these students to understand and take interest in concepts previously unknown to them.
Tutoring Approach:
I believe the best way a student can progress academically is to be interested in what they are learning. It is this principle that is fundamental to my approach to tutoring. I wish to get students reading material that interests them. By being interested in a book myself I hope to get my students interested. I have a wide-ranging knowledge of literary texts: from classics to modern fiction. I wish to also get students relating literature to different types of texts, like film, music and drama. I think talking about how stories unfold and characters interact helps to form building blocks that make up larger literary and social structures, such as narrative theory and human relationships. I hope to get students talking and communicating, making transitions between familiar subjects to complex ideas with ease. I want to create an intellectually stimulating environment that prompts students to ask questions because they are genuinely desirous to know answers. I want to challenge and provoke thought, and galvanise interest.
Subjects Taught:
Qualifications:
- Grade A GCSE English, Grade A GCSE English Language
- Grade A A-level English Literature, Grade B A-level English Language
- 1st Class Grade in both first and second years of studying English BA at the University of Exeter
Further Information:
| Availability: | Weekends / Weekdays (all times) |
| Types of Tutoring: | Travels to you / Online |
| References Supplied? | Yes |
| Current DBS/CRB Check? | Yes |
